2:1 And you [hath he revived], who were dead in trespasses and
sins;
2:2 In which in time past ye walked according to the course of
this world, according to the prince of the power of the air,
the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
2:3 Among whom also we all had our manner of life in times past
in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh
and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even
as others.
2:4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love with which
he loved us,
2:5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath made us alive together
with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
2:6 And hath raised [us] up together, and made [us] sit together
in heavenly [places], in Christ Jesus:
2:7 That in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches
of his grace in [his] kindness towards us, through Christ
Jesus.
2:8 For by grace are ye saved, through faith; and that not of
yourselves: [it is] the gift of God:
2:9 Not by works, lest any man should boast.
2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good
works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in
them.
2:11 Wherefore remember, that ye [being] in time past Gentiles
in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is
called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
2:12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from
the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of
promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
2:13 But now, in Christ Jesus, ye, who formerly were far off,
are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
2:14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath
broken down the middle wall of partition [between us];
2:15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, [even] the law of
commandments [contained] in ordinances: to make in himself of
two one new man, [so] making peace;
2:16 And that he might reconcile both to God in one body by the
cross, having by it slain the enmity:
2:17 And came and preached peace to you who were afar off, and
to them that were nigh.
2:18 For through him we both have an access by one Spirit to the
Father.
2:19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but
fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
2:20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and
prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-[stone];
2:21 In whom all the building fitly framed together, groweth to
a holy temple in the Lord:
2:22 In whom ye also are built together, for a habitation of God
through the Spirit.
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